June 29, 2020

VietSpeech Study 2 Writing Retreat


This week the VietSpeech team are having a writing retreat to analyse and write up papers from Study 2. The VietSpeech grant was announced in 2017 (see here) and we have been working on it since 2018. We have finished Study 1 and are also working on Studies 3 and 4.

This week the following people are meeting together virtually:
  • Sharynne McLeod (Bathurst)
  • Sarah Verdon(Albury)
  • Van Tran (Sydney)
  • Audrey (Cen) Wang (Bathurst)
  • Ben Pham (Ha Noi, Vietnam)
  • Kate Margetson (Sydney)
  • Katherine White (Sydney)
  • Holly McAlister (Albury)
Some highlights:
  • The diversity of our team and the richness of discussions
  • Theoretical and clinical discussions about "What is correct speech?" 
  • Discussions about considering both directions of cross-linguistic transfer 
  • Cameo appearances from our children, pets, and others
Monday morning's meeting
Holly discussed similarities between Fiji English and Vietnamese English
(and shared Hopf, McLeod and Geraghty)
Van created venn diagrams during Tuesday's discussion about "what is correct speech
Wednesday morning's meeting
Van taught us how to cook chokos and to cut up oranges in a Vietnamese way
(and to eat them with salt and chilli)
Ben gave many insights from Vietnam - and told us of her successful national grant (congratulations!)
Kate and Katherine created a form that clinicians could use to compare cross-linguistic vs developmental mismatches
Thursday morning meeting
Writing, thinking, talking, writing...
Friday's meeting - with Sadie studying the figure very carefully
Friday's meeting